The Great Zhao's Number One Charming Son-in-Law

[Alternate history + live-in son-in-law of a prominent family + turning the tables through the imperial exams]

Pei Yanzhou lives under the roof of the Rong family. He's a poor scholar, a prospective son-in-law whom even his fiancée looks down on.

Until one day, he accidentally catches the dignified, widowed matriarch practicing breathing exercises in the back courtyard. Her skin is like ice and jade, her waist as supple as a willow, and nothing about her resembles the haughty woman she is in public.

“Yanzhou, you mustn't tell anyone about what happened today...”

Looking at the flustered matriarch of the household, Pei Yanzhou lowers his eyes, hiding the boundless ambition in them.

Living under someone else's roof? At their mercy?

The endless spring splendor of this grand estate, the vast realm of the Great Zhao Dynasty: he, Pei Yanzhou, will have it all!